On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> wrote: > > Located at: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/AI_Reqs_Final/ > > Are an updated set of AI project requirements.
2.3 Why provide a gui? What users want is a way to manipulate the profiles using their own tools. 2.9 What sort of minimal installation? Everyone will have different ideas as to what this means - what's important is that the scheme is flexible and powerful enough to meet all customization requirements. 3.1 Not a specific release, but what range of releases? S10? S8? 2.6? 3.2 What services are required on the install server? It's no use configuring them if they're not installed. 3.3 What sort of recovery image? Install back to initial state or current state, capturing customizations or not? 4.3 What configurations can be upgraded from? 4.5 Isn't this 3.3 again? 4.6, 5.2 Why does the installer manage virtual environments? Surely the virtual environments should manage installation? 7.1 Secure against what? 8.1.2 NFS is a must - if it's available, that's the one to use. (You need http to handle the WAN case.) 8.2 Would be nice to install from local partition or downloaded iso image. (Clearly this involves playing some games, as you can't have the media oon something that's used directly to install to.) 10.1 Must be *much* faster than LiveCD. Must be significantly faster than current jumpstart too. Need to set some realistic targets. We know how long it should take - 5 minutes would be a reasonable target. 10.2 Need to be much more aggressive here. I don't see any reason why 256M shouldn't be the target. I might accept 384. The bulk of available systems out there are still 512M. Sun are still selling 512M machines. And you need to allow some room for graphics stealing and headroom. And then there's virtualization, so you want the footprint as low as possible to cram as many VMs onto a server as you can. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
